Full council on 28 Jan: Transport update notes that 8 more schools have applied for “schools streets” treatment, following trials around 3 schools last year. Council aims to implement these by start of the 2019/20 school year.

Traffic Mngt Ctte, 5 Feb: proposals to make the experimental pedestrianised area of the High Street permanent – “closed to motorised vehicles”.

Police Ctte, 6 Feb: has a rich KPIs paper, with a section on the City Police’s road safety efforts. In Q3, it stopped 192 large goods vehicles, finding 158 vehicles/drivers with a total of 364 offences. Paper has similar statements as the 24 Jan community engagement report (above) regarding the force’s revised focus on road safety.

Just 30 responses to the consultation on the draft LIP3 submission, with a worrying comment that TfL officers are “happy to recommend” as this infers that TfL is happy with RBKC’s stated hostility to improved cycle routes such as an east-west route. More positively, there were 900 responses to a 20 mph zone consultation, although rollout across the borough is very patchy; and

TfL Board 30 Jan, 12mb pdf with all the papers Lot of plans-or-works-in-progress updates about CS4, CS9, CS10, Lambeth Bridge etc., but with few hard dates. The Finance Report records that Q3 July-September’s central London/ CCZ cycling numbers were the highest recorded, with the main cycle superhighway routes being very popular.

18 Jan: response to Linda Norman about Will Norman’s comments on cycling schemes benefitting businesses. Ms Norman appears to live in Enfield, and has submitted several FOIs regarding loss of motor parking spaces. TfL respond with a link to one of its reports. Ms Norman isn’t satisfied with the response, has reviewed the reference citations, and asked for a further review.

12 Feb, Planning & Transport Ctte: only 2 substantive papers – a response to a petition for traffic calming on an Earlsfield street (rejected), and an analysis of 20mph on non-A/B class roads across the borough introduced in 2016. The latter is reported as a success, although I can’t quite see the casualty reductions claimed. Also, there’s no data from Met Police regarding FPNs/prosecutions, which I would have thought was a relevant data point. What’s not on the agenda is anything on active travel e.g. results from the LIP3 consultation, Priory Lane cycle scheme consultation, on-street cycle hanger trial, cross-river bridges, …. So all these are delayed (again) until at least June.

City Mngt Ctte on 6 Feb: another cabinet member’s report also includes transport, focussing on 20mph zones (residents like them), air quality (residents want some), and cycling (bike hangers, and a cryptic comment about ‘rationalising’ cycling infrastructure schemes in the context of the CS11 arguments).